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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Glue

I am an engineer: the kind that shouldn’t pick up wrenches or work on anything. I am a “design” engineer (that is the worst kind!). I can tell you how to do it, but I can’t physically do it myself. I don’t carry wrenches, I don’t try to true wheels, and I definitely don’t attempt to adjust my front derailleur! So that leads me to my big dilemma of the week. On Saturday both Martha and I got flats in the race. Actually, Martha got TWO flats (I think she did it just to torture me this week). We both run tubulars. Why? I don’t know, probably just to make life more difficult. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Right now I am not too sure. So this week, I am a gluing fool. Hopefully I can get it done without too much swearing, throwing of wrenches, yelling at my wife or kicking my dog.

7 Comments:

At 8:39 AM, Blogger Brian Hayes said...

dude tufo tubular tape...glue is for suckers, or we can swap your sweet tubulars for my crappy clinchers.

 
At 8:52 AM, Blogger M_A_T_T said...

ha, i just emailed Matt Roy discussing the tape. Have you had good luck with it? Not glue at all, just tape?

 
At 12:11 PM, Blogger gewilli said...

glue is easy... but if ya dislike flats...

do what Chris Burke has done for years:

Stan's notubes stuff...
a link

heck a few extra ounces vs getting a flat... which one will slow you down more in a race???

logic seems to work for me... thought i'd pass it along

 
At 12:57 PM, Blogger M_A_T_T said...

Stan's on the road?!?! Seems a bit crazy . . .

You have any news on Chris' condition?
http://gewilli.blogspot.com/2006/05/crap.html

 
At 9:05 PM, Blogger megA said...

tape is good for the road, but not so much for cross with the torque/low pressure combo so, enjoy your respite now, but don't get out of gluing practice!

xoxo
m

 
At 9:04 AM, Blogger gewilli said...

yeah... stan's on the road...

well... think of it this way, flat vs stans.. I'm debatin adding it to my coctail in the commuter wheels... Mr Tuffy, Conti-SSu (with a billion cuts) extra fat tube, and Stans...

seemed a bit crazy when Chris first brought it up but he swears by it and thinking about it... that latex goop is lighter and a bit better than Slime so... why not?

re: Chris's condition...
I want and need to thank so many people for your outpouring of support
during the time I have been incapacitated due to my untimely meeting
with another vehicle much larger than I. Friends of ours from the
area, family, and many people I don't even know from the cycling
community who have contacted me with well wishes came through. You
have all shown me how to be compassionate and make someone feel close
to community. I'll now be in full recovery mode and soon training
for the fall season and cyclo-cross. Hopefully I'll be back on
another bike in about 2 months.
Thank-You All,


Chris

 
At 7:04 PM, Blogger Brian Hayes said...

I had a set of training tubulars (alu rims) which I used the tape on and pulled the tire from the base tape when i tried to get it off. I used it on my carbon cross wheels last fall and had to glue it on b/c of the glue that was already on the rim. I think that in order for it to work you need a clean rim. But it held in cross just fine unless it was SUPER muddy, then I would have a problem the next day when all that mud dried, never a problem in a race though. I got some of rhat "tubular tape" from Stu at cyclocross world, that held till the end of the season.

 

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